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Detainee in stable condition after jumping from detention center railing

Las Cruces Sun-News

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07/17/2014 07:03:47 AM MDT

LAS CRUCES >> A 24-year-old female detainee at the Doña Ana County Detention Center jumped Wednesday night from a second-floor railing in the center's cellblock, landing headfirst on the concrete floor below.

Laura Delhierro was transported with an officer escort by ambulance to Memorial Medical Center, according to a county news release and was later airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso. The incident at the detention center happened at 9:17 p.m., the county reports.

Delhierro suffered multiple injuries, including a broken nose, a broken elbow and multiple lacerations, the release stated. She is in stable condition in the intensive-care unit of the hospital, the county reports, and is expected to recover.

Delhierro was arrested July 5 by Doña Ana County Sheriff's investigators after she allegedly stabbed her younger sister during an argument just after 2 a.m. at a home in the 300 block of San Benito Street in Berino.

Delhierro has 11 prior bookings on charges ranging from tampering with evidence to failure to comply with conditions of probationary release.

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